Moncler plans to concentrate its Milanese employees, currently spread over three sites, into a new headquarters, to be refurbished and delivered by the end of 2024. To this end, the Italian luxury skiwear and outerwear brand has announced a 15-year pre-letting agreement with Convivio. The building is located in the Symbiosis business district of Italy’s financial capital, Milan, and occupies some 38,000 square meters. The redesign, entrusted to the Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel International Architecture and Interior Design Studio (ACPV), will reflect a shift toward what the brand calls hybrid, aggregative spaces, on an open plan, to “accommodate heterogeneous and inclusive working groups” and “encourage transversal collaboration.” The furniture is to generate a “family-like atmosphere, something closer to the comfort of a home than an office.” The building will also seek to obtain WELL and LEED environmental certifications. Patricia Viel, co-founding architect, says that ACPV will be placing photovoltaic cells on the roof and transforming an extant industrial chimney to improve the building’s thermal performance through the channeling of outside air into a surrounding “bioclimatic greenhouse.” Moncler’s chairman and CEO, Remo Ruffini, grounds the rationale for the new premises on the effects of the pandemic, when “we understood that we can work anywhere, but we also understood that it is when we are together that we make the difference and release all our energy.”

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